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STATE OF TENNESSEE
VS.
JAMES E. GAYLES
Court:TCCA
Attorneys:
FOR THE APPELLANT: FOR THE APPELLEE:
DONALD E. SPURRELL JOHN KNOX WALKUP
128 East Market Street Attorney General and Reporter
Johnson City, TN 37604
ERIK W. DAAB
Assistant Attorney General
425 Fifth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37243
DAVID CROCKETT
District Attorney General
JOE CRUMLEY
KENT GARLAND
Assistant District Attorneys
First Judicial District
Jonesborough, TN 37659
Judge:SMITH
First Paragraph:
On July 7, 1993, Appellant James E. Gayles was charged with one count of
first degree murder. After a jury trial on February 6-7, 1995,
Appellant was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to life
imprisonment. Appellant challenges his conviction, raising the
following issues:
1) whether the evidence was sufficient to support his conviction; and
2) whether the State improperly failed to disclose a leniency agreement
it had with one of its witnesses.
After a review of the record, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/Gaylejam_opn.WP6
STATE OF TENNESSEE
VS.
MICHAEL D. HAWKINS
Court:TCCA
Attorneys:
For the Appellant: For the Appellee:
Mack Garner Paul G. Summers
District Public Defender Attorney General and Reporter
Natalee S. Hurley
Asst. District Public Defender
419 High Street
Maryville, TN 37804 Georgia Blythe Felner
Assistant Attorney General
(AT TRIAL) Criminal Justice Division
425 Fifth Avenue North
2d Floor, Cordell Hull Building
Gerald L. Bulley, Jr. Nashville, TN 37243-0493
Contract Appellate Defender
P. O. Box 1708
Knoxville, TN 37901-1708 C. Berkeley Bell, Jr.
District Attorney General
(ON APPEAL)
Edward P. Bailey, Jr.
Asst. District Attorney General
363 Court Street
Maryville, TN 37804
Judge:HAYES
First Paragraph:
The appellant, Michael D. Hawkins, appeals as of right from the trial
court's revocation of his suspended sentence. Following a hearing, the
trial court found that the appellant had violated conditions of his
probation and ordered execution of the entire sentence as originally
entered. On appeal, the appellant contends that the trial court should
have granted intensive probation or an alternative sentence,
specifically Community Corrections.
http://www.tba.org/tba_files/TCCA/Hawkinsm_opn.WP6

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